I understand that Bioware wanted to create this sense of vast emptyness to really get the feeling of the desert across. I get it, I do. It was super pretty, but after the first five minutes of oooing and aaahing it got really old, really quick. The Hissing Wastes took forever to traverse and honestly I would have loved to see more travelling locations available to mitigate it somewhat…

On another note, Solas has a shiny head. It was even shinier under the light of that bigass moon. At times it looked as if the area had a second moon, ’s all I’m saying.

Man I hated that zone. I went there with the "Hunt the big bad critter!" quest thing and went straight for it and holy shit. I just. So much running. I normally never use mounts in zones when I first explore them, preferring to go on foot so I can explore all the crannies and hear party banter, but I had to make an exception for that place.

The suckiest zone in existence...

Edit: Also ohman have you guys seen the concept art for all the characters? Solas has some wicked hair in them *_*

XD The wastes. I think the name comes from "waste a lot of time with walking around" My first playhrough was such a pain in the arse and I hated the treasure maps... I thought I never will find the grave-chambers. But much worse was this strange sister... I never found her again the first time :D
PS: Harts rox!